Do we really want to kill "Hussein's own hostages?"

**Bill Moyers in his PBS Web page tells of what he learned as Lyndon Johnson's press secretary as the Vietnam war was beginning. He calculates the costs of war in mothers, on both sides, deprived of their kids and husbands. Very moving. Let's continue to give "candles and prayers" a chance.

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To launch an armada against Hussein's own hostages, a people who have not fired a shot at us in anger, seems a crude and poor alternative to shrewd, disciplined diplomacy.

Don't get me wrong. Vietnam didn't make me a dove; it made me read the Constitution. That's all. Government's first obligation is to defend its citizens. There's nothing in the Constitution that says it's permissible for a great nation to go hunting for Hussein by killing the people he holds hostage, his own people, who have no choice in the matter, who have done us no harm.

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